Design Commons

This book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology.

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Dr. Gerhard Bruyns is an architect and urbanist. He is Associate Professor, School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. His research deals with aspects of spatial morphology and its impact on both the formal expression of the city and the societal conditions that are compressed into the urban landscapes of Asia. He has published on design strategies, spatial commoning, and geopolitical issues linked to spatial practices and urban morphology.

Dr. Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory in the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. He has studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d' Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He has published and lectured in Europe and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal since 2014.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

Gerhard Bruyns and Stavros Kousoulas

Part I Design, the Commons and the Social

2. Commoning as a Material Engagement of Resistance: The Struggle to Save the Albanian National Theater Dorina Pllumbi
3. AutoCostruzione-SelbstBau: Design as a Practical Knowledge Translation Process Maria Reitano and Nikolaus Gartner

4. Scaling Out, Up and Deep: Understanding the Sustainment and Resilience of Urban Commons Chun Zheng

5. Alignments of Architecture and Commoning in Tai O Village: Architecture Critique and Fields of Adversity Daniel Elkin, Chi-Yuen Leung and Xiao Lu Wang

   Part II Design, the Commons and Culture

6. Persistent Modeling of the Built: A Collective Experiment Merging Structural Preservation and Digital Design Between Academia and Industry Frank Bauer and Lasse Sehested Skafte

7. The Commons in African Spatial Production: A Critical Review of Geographies of Power

Gert van der Merwe

8. Expressing Urban Commons: Architectural Ambiguity in the Construction of an Improvisational Future

Nicholas Frayne

Part III Design, the Commons and Ecology

9. Intriguing Human-Waste Commons: Praxis of Anticipation in Urban Agroecological Transitions

Markus Wernli

10. The Secondary Use Group: Unlocking Waste as a Common Pool of Resources in the 1970s Piero Medici

11. Reclaiming the Habitat: Food, Fire and Affordance in Designing and Living the Urban

Liana Psarologaki and Stamatis Zografos

Part IV Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity

12. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach Dora Karadima

13. 'Matters of Care' in Spaces of Commoning: Designing In, Against and Beyond Capitalism

Katharina Moebus

14. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care

Contingent Collective (Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier and Nicole Sylvia)

Biographical Notes